Russia today said the Iranian nuclear crisis must be solved under the direction of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, and it called on Iran to co-operate more fully with the organisation.

The European Union continued to subordinate human rights in its relationships with other countries deemed useful in the fight against terrorism, such as Russia, China and Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch said today.

CAFÉ MAO is the name of not one, but two, restaurants in Dublin. This column does not review restaurants, however, and I will confine my comments to the strange choice of name.

QUESTIONS over the legitimacy of going to war are also being raised across the Atlantic, with US President George W Bush heavily criticised for making false claims about Iraq seeking to buy uranium from an African state.